DANIELS: Stressed For Success

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David Knight tries not to get stressed by the vigour with which the dynamic Daniels approach the art and craft of shorts, spots and award-winning music videos.

Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert – the directing duo known as DANIELS – are sitting in a production company conference room in London, explaining how they come up with ideas and how they achieve them. And the word ‘stress’ is cropping up with resounding regularly.

“Our process is

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